New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-05-16
IRISH PARTY TACTICS.
THE NEXT IMPORTANT MOVE AGAINST The
GOVERNMENT.

MD GLADSTONE AND Mr.. PARNELL TO LHAD "
ATTACK IN PERsoN-THE IRISH MEMDIN' D
IIEvE A COUP d ETAT HAS DNA'
plANSED-AMENDMENIs Io
THE CRIMES ACT.
,uvo.stx To THE TRmUS-I
.,.,. ,as7 North 1merioan Gable Hews 90.
JoNnay. Mav 15-The situation wnioa l ou''
lined In ny last dispatch as arising ouv VI Vi.' W
position to the Coercion bill in farilainenS -as
since deyeloped q stage III Will pe ieii'
/ showed that the number OF amendments no'eu
to the tirs clause of the bill was such thac ea0n
OF tho other clauses was TO he conoeSVeu Ia '--0
sn,,o fashion ID would take something like lour
wears before the measure would De reany ior Viie
ROYAL assent. Both sides have now looked ViiiS
fac, sauarely in the face and have pesun 10 rocos
nize that they must find some way OUT "l tne cur
de-sao Both imagine they have tound Iheir way
out.
The Government last week made up their minus
that they would have to attempt coup u eVaV'
Milbank Prison was got ready for hrst-class li'9
,1neanants and the Deputy Governor was ordered
to hold himself In readiness to receive oa'cn oi
prisoners at any hour of the night or day They
wou,d LEFT the Opposition run out for little longer
then hold series of all night sttings, exacerbate
tho temper of the House, make believe that they
vere struggling against wanton and violent oo-
,uletion and when the moment was ripe call III
tbe Sergeant,at-Arms and arrest all the prominent
obstructiyes and those who followed their example,
and rush the bill through in their absence. 1hao
WAS their plan Il has been shaken somewhat by
the refusal of the chairman OF the comhh''ee vi
tuesday last to lend himself to the policy OF whoie
sale cloturng and now by the counter move wIch
the Opposition is about TO make. But from all
the signs as they appear to me- it is likely 10 re-
main their plan to the end
Tho counter move Of the Opposition was fore
Swallowed in MIR. Gladstone's speech at the Non
Conformist luncheon. 1t will consist OF an o1er
to the Government practically to withdraw oppo-
sition to the bill If the Government accept an
amendment which will render the bill operative
for the suppression of crime only ana
prevent its being operative against politi-
cal agitation and popular combination.
An amendment to this effect will be moved
by Sir William Harcourt on Tuesday night when
n regular pitched battle will take place with the
commanders of the two wings of the Opposition
Mr. Gladstone and Mr. Parnell leading their force
In person. Should this amendment be accepted,
Irish objections to the bill will to great extent
disappear, for it would then become bill not for
suppressing liberty, but for aiding in the detection
and punishment of crime. The Irish may and GER
tainly should quarrel with the method. They
may dispute the necessity. But they cannot quar-
rel with the principle. They are as anxious for
tho suppression of genuine crime and outrage as
any one But should the amendment be rejected,
as 1 know it will be, the Government Will have
confessed before the world by its rejection that
they want this bill to enable them not to suppress
erime and outrage, but to break up the combina-
tions by which the Irish tenants have defended
themselves against rack-renting landlords, and to
put down the public meetings, the press and the
examinations by means Of which the Irish people
have endeavored to exercise the rights OF free men
and to organize their public opinion; and IN Thai
sceOppositop TO every line and syllable of the bill
will be conspicuously justified. Every line and
syilable of the bill viii In that case contain
lurking danger to the public welfare.
The offer of the amendment Will have put the
Irish in this advantageous position before the Eng
lish people. They will have shown their readiness
to let a bill pass which would be honestly aimed
against crime alone. They will have made the
Government confess out Of their own lTs if they
reject the amendment that the real object OF the
bill is TO extinguish freedom and not to punish
crime. Should they determine on prolonged
resistance to such an avowed engine OF tyranny,
the Irish will have with them the sympathy OF
all honest men and lovers of liberty.
After Tuesday night next 1 shall be better able
to give you an idea Of the course of action which
Mr.. Parnen may decide to have pursued. L may
repeat now, however what / pointed out on
Wednesday, namely that sufficient amendments
TO the bill TO delay it almost interminaby can be
moved without once allowing opposition to de-
generate into obstruction. The bill is of
such nature that if the pernicous principle to
be attacked on Tuesday permitted to remain
il would bristle with thousand truculent and
irsidious menaces TO popular rights, every one Of
which should be met with an amendment. To
give an idea of the bona fde character Of the
amendments SO far disposed of, 1 may mention
that many have been accepted by the Govern
ment too palpably just and necessary TO be re-
fused that the first seventeen lines of the bill
have now grown TO fftysiX lines. These amend
ments in the nature Of safeguards TO protect
the persons who may be summoned before the
courts of inquisiton which the bill proposes TO
set up in Ireland. Some Of them provide, for ex
ample, that the iDquisition instead Of being held
in police barracks or in back Of Dublin
Castle shall be held in the regular sessions courts,
that inquiries must be held between ten in the
morning and six in the evening that shorthand
writer shall take down all the questions of the
magistrate and the answers of the witnesses that
the magistrate himself must conduct the inquiry
and rot permit any other person TO question any
witness that quarterly return of the persons
committed TO prison for not answering at these
inquiries shall be presented to Parliament, so
that there viii be danger of q man being in
carcerated in castle oubliette beyond the ken of
his friends and utterly lost and forgotten as
occurred to a man few years ago and so on
10 the number of about o dozen amendments, not
counting many more quite as valuable that were
rejected. T. Z. GILL, NJ. Z.
SOMEBODY APPROPRIATED THE SPOONS
LONDON. May 15-After the Queen and tho Prince and
Princess of Wales had taken at the Mansion House
eatnr.fay tvo gold teaspoons were missed They